How to Fish Mod

While you play How to Fish, viewers spawn fish and bosses with their own names over them, right up to a whale next to your boat. They make fish bite and escape, hand you rods, guns and bait, pay you or take half your money, set you on fire, throw you into the sea, flip your boat, and bring storms, fog and night.

Plan: all plans. On Free, 15 actions work; PRO and MAX unlock all 180.

Installation

Install the mod from Manage Mod — see Installing mods. If How to Fish is installed through Steam, the folder field fills in by itself; otherwise pick the folder with How to Fish.exe (Steam keeps it one level down, in How to Fish\How to Fish, and the app finds it if you pick the upper one). The mod comes with BepInEx. If BepInEx is already in the game's folder, BakoshApp keeps it and adds only the plugin.

Mod profiles of r2modman and Thunderstore Mod Manager are supported: BakoshApp shows a card on the mod's page with a button that copies the mod into them.

Turn on How to Fish Chaos in the sidebar and start the game.

How it plays

• How to Fish is a co-op game. Install the mod on your PC only and host the game yourself, or play alone. Friends need no mod: they see the fish, the bosses and everything else that happens. Only you see the viewers' names.
• In someone else's game actions are skipped.
• Actions need you to be on an island or at sea. In the main menu, while an island loads, during the ending and while you are dead they are skipped.
• A fish appears on the ground or on the deck about three metres from you. A live fish flops toward the water, and in the water it is gone: catch it or kill it fast. Over it, in the world, floats the viewer's nick.
• Counts on a row is how many arrive.
• Bosses work as the game's own: the health bar, the music and the time limit. There is one boss at a time; while one is here, another summon is skipped. The Boss Swims Away ends the fight.
• Bite and escape actions need a rod in your hands, with the bait in the water for a bite and a fish on the hook for an escape.
• Boat actions work wherever the boat is. Rock the Boat and Stormy Sea can throw it over; it rights itself.
• Money, boat keys, the radar, the motor and the paint stay in your save.
• Slow Motion and Fast Forward work only when you are alone in the game: with friends they are skipped.
• Next Island and Previous Island go only through the islands unlocked in your save. Things left lying far from you disappear, as with any island change.
• Timed actions last as long as the row's Duration says.

What viewers can do

• Fish & Critters — every fish and crab of the game, from Goldfish and Bass to Oarfish, Stonefish and the sneaker-wearing Dripper, plus Seagull, Clam and Leech.
• Bosses — Tuna, Blue Shark, Goblin Shark, Sunfish, The Old Pike, Manta, Giant Piranha, Spidercrab, Pufferfish, Albatross, Bowhead Whale and the Mutated Bowhead Whale.
• Gear & Weapons — rods, dynamite, knife, brass knuckles, pistol, shotgun, SMG, sniper rifle, assault rifle, bow, radio, radar map, flying disc, beach ball, money in a bottle and a barrel. They land next to you, to pick up.
• Food — beer and the meat of bosses, worth a lot when sold.
• Bait — one piece of any bait, lure or boss lure, put on your rod at once.
• Fish Chaos — a random fish, a shiny one, a fish flying into your face, a rain of fish, lit dynamite, a rain of dynamite, a seagull that steals what lies around, and the boss swimming away.
• Money — tips, a jackpot, euros, a fine, half your money gone.
• Health & Hunger — heal, hurt, poison, fire, a meal, starvation, invincibility, instant death.
• Movement — launched up, shoved, back to the island's start, to the boat, thrown out to sea, dropped from the sky, fast and heavy legs, stuck in place, moon jump.
• View & Controls — turn around, whiplash, an earthquake, a dizzy spin, inverted mouse, tunnel vision, fisheye, shaky and numb hands, a blackout.
• Rod & Hands — instant bite, a feeding frenzy, the fish gets away, yanked by the line, the bait snaps off, dropped or thrown what you hold, empty pockets, the catch burnt.
• Boat — into the air, rammed, spun, rocked, dynamite on deck, kicked from the wheel, drifting away and coming back, keys, radar, a motor upgrade and new paint.
• Weather & Islands — a stormy sea that really moves the boat, dead calm, thick fog, sunset, night, slow motion, fast forward, the next, previous and a mini island.

External commands, Win Counter and Team Score actions and Avatar actions are available on every plan.

Overlay

The game feeds three overlay widgets: Health Bar shows your health, Death Counter counts the deaths and Speedometer shows the speed of the boat you drive.

FAQ

Nothing happens when viewers trigger actions. Check that How to Fish Chaos is on in BakoshApp, that you are the host of the game and that you are on an island or at sea, not in the main menu.

Do my friends need the mod? No. Install it only on your PC and host the game. Friends see the same fish and bosses, without the viewers' names.

A fish appeared and vanished. Live fish flop toward the sea and are gone in the water. That is how the game treats them.

Will the mod break my other BepInEx mods? No. If BepInEx is already in the game's folder, BakoshApp keeps it, its config and your plugins — on removal as well.

Is there an in-game menu? No — everything is set up in BakoshApp.

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